Steven C. LaTourette: “I for one think that a trillion used to be a lot of money around here. It is not so much any more.”

I have no problem saying to some of my wealthy friends, look, you got to be part of the solution.

I was struck by the $7 million and 6,800 jobs, and you know, one of the satisfactions is the correlation of the dollars spent and jobs created.

I think we need people on the ground with money to transform the communities.

My difficulty, however, is that your leadership in both Houses completely abdicated their responsibility to govern this country when it came to the Nation's fiscal health.